Style: German Pilsner (Pils)

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Style Profile based on 778 recipes

BU:GU

0.55

Hops

5.0 g/L

Mash pH

5.57

Dry Hop

0.2 g/L

Typical Grain Bill

80% Pilsner
11% Pale
5% Toast
3% Crystal

% of total grain weight across all recipes · sums to ~100%

Common Additions

% of German Pilsner (Pils) recipes using each malt category (addition % in brackets)

Hop Usage by Addition Type

g/L · median with IQR range

Bittering

0.35 g/L 1.47 g/L

0.69 g/L

Flavour

0.32 g/L 1.37 g/L

0.69 g/L

Aroma

0.37 g/L 1.5 g/L

0.69 g/L

Whirlpool

0.37 g/L 1.37 g/L

0.69 g/L

Dry Hop

0.73 g/L 2.25 g/L

1.37 g/L

Common Hops

% of German Pilsner (Pils) recipes using each hop

Dry-Hop Rate by Year

g/L · median with IQR range

2018

1.18 g/L 2.06 g/L

1.62 g/L

2019

0.69 g/L 0.69 g/L

0.69 g/L

2020

1.31 g/L 2.56 g/L

1.83 g/L

2021

1.17 g/L 3 g/L

1.5 g/L

2022

0.48 g/L 1.7 g/L

0.73 g/L

2023

0.96 g/L 2.37 g/L

1.33 g/L

2024

0.55 g/L 1.44 g/L

1.37 g/L

dated German Pilsner (Pils) recipes with at least one dry-hop addition

Common Fermentables

Colour = malt category · bar = % of recipes

Common Yeasts

% of German Pilsner (Pils) recipes using each strain

Mash Profile

64% Single Infusion
24% Step Mash
12% Decoction

220 recipes with mash data

Typical Water Profile

21 ppm Ca²⁺
3 ppm Mg²⁺
4 ppm Na⁺
13 ppm Cl⁻
13 ppm SO₄²⁻
25 ppm HCO₃⁻

median across recipes with a declared water profile

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